[CentOS-announce] CESA-2007:0671 Moderate CentOS 3 i386 kernel - security and bugfix update

2007-08-20 Thread Tru Huynh
CentOS Errata and Security Advisory CESA-2007:0671 kernel security update for CentOS 3 i386: https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2007-0671.html The following updated file has been uploaded and is currently syncing to the mirrors: i386: updates/i386/RPMS/kernel-2.4.21-51.EL.i586.rpm

[CentOS] net-snmp 5.1.2-11.EL4.10.0.1

2007-08-20 Thread David Hrbáč
Hi, I guess, net-snmp should have dependency set to the latest net-snmp-libs. Regards, David [root@ ~]# yum update net-snmp Loading fastestmirror plugin Setting up Update Process Setting up repositories Loading mirror speeds from cached hostfile Reading repository metadata in from local files

Re: [CentOS] Data recovery with superblocks?

2007-08-20 Thread Tomasz Napierała
On Friday 17 August 2007 22:12:57 Scott Ehrlich wrote: Now, using fdisk, I was reminded of being given superblocks. Although I haven't used data recovery techniques using superblocks, is there a way to retrieve the superblock numbers the OS has assigned to a partition? sudo dumpe2fs

[CentOS] Re: add new module in initrd

2007-08-20 Thread beast
On 18/08/07 01:26 -0500, Johnny Hughes wrote: beast wrote: On 15/08/07 17:38 -0400, Phil Schaffner wrote: On Wed, 2007-08-15 at 20:23 +0700, beast wrote: On 14/08/07 07:26 +0200, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: one of the files /linuxrc should list what modules get loaded on start. Thanks for the

Re: [CentOS] net-snmp 5.1.2-11.EL4.10.0.1

2007-08-20 Thread Johnny Hughes
David Hrbáč wrote: Hi, I guess, net-snmp should have dependency set to the latest net-snmp-libs. Regards, David I agree, however we do not make technical changes to SPEC files. This is an upstream issue. snip Thanks, Johnny Hughes signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature

Re: [CentOS] Kernel

2007-08-20 Thread centos
Centos 4 kernel's base version is 2.6.9 and Centos 5 kernel's base version is 2.6.18. and I couldn't find anything in Centos mirror sites and repository ( I really need kernel version 2.6.18. ) Downloaded and installed kernel 2.16.18 for version 5, and installed it on Centos 4, it is ok but

Re: [CentOS] OT: Suggestions for database for physicians patientrecords?

2007-08-20 Thread gjgowey
If you want to take this offline I'll chat with you further. However, if it's just for in office use I'd look at using CentOS, postgresql (not MYSQL), php, and APACHE. It wouldn't be very hard to throw together an app that would do what you want that is web based. Of course if he wants a fat

RE: [CentOS] OT: Suggestions for database for physicians patientrecords?

2007-08-20 Thread Ross S. W. Walker
-Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Lanny Marcus Sent: Monday, August 20, 2007 7:49 AM To: CentOS Mailing List Subject: [CentOS] OT: Suggestions for database for physicians patientrecords? This is very OT. If list readers can point

Re: [CentOS] Install on a usb flash drive

2007-08-20 Thread Phil Schaffner
On Sat, 2007-08-18 at 13:14 -0500, Scott Moseman wrote: An interesting idea. How would the install work? If you boot from DVD with the USB drive installed, will it see the drive and make it an option for the install destination? Tried this a while back with an earlier release of CentOS4 and

Re: [CentOS] Help with backups

2007-08-20 Thread Ken Price
What do people suggest? Thanks. Scott Scott, RSYNC! For info: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rsync Homepage: http://rsync.samba.org/ Clients available for Win32 as well. This is an easy, tried-and-true method of backing up a workstation (or other servers) to a central server.

Re: [CentOS] OT: Suggestions for database for physicians patient records?

2007-08-20 Thread Ken Price
Before you go throwing together a solution, you need to check the laws in your state and country. Here in the US there are laws that say how patient data can be stored. There are compliant software packages for Dr's and Hospitals that include everything they need including stuff like medical

Re: [CentOS] Help with backups

2007-08-20 Thread Tom Brown
I've got a Redhat 5 server running Samba, and two dualboot CentOS 5 workstations. Until we get a better backup strategy, I'm backing up the workstations to the server via mounting a shared samba drive to /mnt. Trying tar cvf /mnt/samba_share/backup.tar /* eventually yields backing up

Re: [CentOS] Help with backups

2007-08-20 Thread Kenneth Porter
--On Monday, August 20, 2007 11:11 AM -0500 Les Mikesell [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Yes, unfortunately you have to choose between being able to keep much more history online with no need to install a client agent and being able to save windows metadata. Bacula also has better integration for

Re: [CentOS] Need help to track an ip port problem

2007-08-20 Thread Kai Schaetzl
Steve Rigler wrote on Mon, 20 Aug 2007 10:56:28 -0500: In your case, I'd bet that sendmail is probably only configured to listen on lo. That's at least the default in CentOS 5, I don't remember how CentOS 4 handled this. You have to put a variable in /etc/sysconfig/sendmail, but I don't know

Re: [CentOS] Help with backups

2007-08-20 Thread Les Mikesell
Kenneth Porter wrote: --On Monday, August 20, 2007 11:11 AM -0500 Les Mikesell [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Yes, unfortunately you have to choose between being able to keep much more history online with no need to install a client agent and being able to save windows metadata. Bacula also has

Re: [CentOS] Need help to track an ip port problem

2007-08-20 Thread Tom Brown
That's at least the default in CentOS 5, I don't remember how CentOS 4 handled this. You have to put a variable in /etc/sysconfig/sendmail, but I don't know which one as I always compile my own sendmail.cf. dnl # The following causes sendmail to only listen on the IPv4 loopback address

[CentOS] open port 46929

2007-08-20 Thread Craig White
results from 'netstat -tlpn' gives me a line... tcp0 0 0.0.0.0:46929 0.0.0.0:* LISTEN - googling for port 46929 doesn't turn up anything and so I don't have a clue what process this belongs to. Do I have to start capturing activity on this port or is there a

Re: [CentOS] open port 46929

2007-08-20 Thread Stephen Harris
On Mon, Aug 20, 2007 at 09:46:21AM -0700, Craig White wrote: results from 'netstat -tlpn' gives me a line... tcp0 0 0.0.0.0:46929 0.0.0.0:* LISTEN - Rerun the command as root (eg under sudo). Then the p option will tell you what process is listening. eg %

RE: [CentOS] open port 46929

2007-08-20 Thread mike.redan
If you run that netstat command as root, then the last column should show which process/PID is listening on that port. (that is what the '-p' option to netstat tells you) lsof is handy for this as well. Mike -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On

RE: [CentOS] open port 46929

2007-08-20 Thread Craig White
I have been running as root and if you notice, I did have a 'p' option # netstat -tlpn |grep 46929 tcp0 0 0.0.0.0:46929 0.0.0.0:* LISTEN - and thus the process isn't displayed. Likewise (and I tried this with lsof before posting to the list)... # lsof |grep

Re: [CentOS] open port 46929

2007-08-20 Thread Stephen Harris
On Mon, Aug 20, 2007 at 10:05:54AM -0700, Craig White wrote: I have been running as root and if you notice, I did have a 'p' That you were running as root wasn't clear from your message (different people use different prompts). I knew you used a p which is why I said _rerun_ the command. #

Re: [CentOS] open port 46929

2007-08-20 Thread Craig White
On Mon, 2007-08-20 at 13:21 -0400, Stephen Harris wrote: On Mon, Aug 20, 2007 at 10:05:54AM -0700, Craig White wrote: I have been running as root and if you notice, I did have a 'p' That you were running as root wasn't clear from your message (different people use different prompts). I

Re: [CentOS] GNBD and DRBD kernel mods

2007-08-20 Thread Bart
Hmm, I have to disagree: First check the current kernelversion: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~]# uname -a Linux bartje 2.6.18-8.1.8.el5.centos.plus #1 SMP Mon Jul 16 08:49:50 EDT 2007 i686 athlon i386 GNU/Linux Check for kmod-drbd: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~]# modprobe drbd [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~]# lsmod | grep

Re: [CentOS] Need help to track an ip port problem

2007-08-20 Thread Kai Schaetzl
Tom Brown wrote on Mon, 20 Aug 2007 17:39:54 +0100: DAEMON_OPTIONS(`Port=smtp,Addr=127.0.0.1, Name=MTA')dnl This is what you have to remove from the mc file, yes. That is what *I* do. But I think it can be made easier for the average user. At least from older SuSE systems I know that this can

Re: [CentOS] Problems reading a backup data DVD

2007-08-20 Thread Lanny Marcus
On 19 August 2007, Mark Hull-Richter [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: snip Is there any way to read what's on this DVD (so I can back -up the files again, hopefully with better results)? Secondary related question: I noticed that my CentOS boot DVD does not automount when I put it in either drive -

[CentOS] can't login to remote cvs server

2007-08-20 Thread Kanwar Ranbir Sandhu
Hi Everyone, I have, for the first time, installed and minimally configured a cvs server on a CentOS 5 box. I followed a how to to do the initial configuration, so I'm sure I haven't done anything wrond (according to the how to, anyway). But, I keep getting this error: $

Re: [CentOS] HELP, I accidentally initialized my /boot partition

2007-08-20 Thread John R Pierce
Alfred von Campe wrote: So I installed a second drive in my system today, and instead of typing mkfs.ext3 /dev/sda1 I did a mkfs.ext3 /dev/hda1. Fortunately, that was just my /boot partition. I thought I could just copy the contents from the /boot partition from another system, but that

RE: [CentOS] HELP, I accidentally initialized my /boot partition

2007-08-20 Thread Ross S. W. Walker
-Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Alfred von Campe Sent: Monday, August 20, 2007 3:24 PM To: CentOS mailing list Subject: [CentOS] HELP, I accidentally initialized my /boot partition So I installed a second drive in my system today,

Re: [CentOS] GNBD and DRBD kernel mods

2007-08-20 Thread Karanbir Singh
Bart wrote: Hmm, I have to disagree: http://mirror.centos.org/centos/5/updates/i386/RPMS/ i can see the kmod-gnbd for 2.6.18-8.1.8 fine there Also, i dont seem to recall us ever shipping kmod-gnbd for the CentOSPlus kernels. - KB -- Karanbir Singh : http://www.karan.org/ : [EMAIL

Re: [CentOS] GNBD and DRBD kernel mods

2007-08-20 Thread Bart
http://mirror.centos.org/centos/5/updates/i386/RPMS/ i can see the kmod-gnbd for 2.6.18-8.1.8 fine there It's not one of both kmod's, it's the combination ;) I can't find a kernel that has both. Also, i dont seem to recall us ever shipping kmod-gnbd for the CentOSPlus kernels. Well, that

[CentOS] RAID storage - SATA, SCSI, or Fibre Channel?

2007-08-20 Thread Scott Ehrlich
I have a Dell PowerEdge 2950 and am looking to add more storage. I know a lot of factors can go into the type of answer given, but for present and future technology planning, should I look for a rack of SATA, SCSI, or fibre channel drives?Maybe I'm dating myself with fibre channel, and

[CentOS] 'service' command not present

2007-08-20 Thread Trey Sizemore
I just did an install of CentOS 5 on one of my machines. However, when I try to use the 'service' command (such as 'service httpd start') I get an error that the service command is not found. Why would that be? Where does this command come from? I can launch the services just fine using the

Re: [CentOS] 'service' command not present

2007-08-20 Thread Trey Sizemore
On Mon Aug 20, 2007 04:57PM, Stephen Harris wrote: On Mon, Aug 20, 2007 at 04:54:11PM -0400, Trey Sizemore wrote: I just did an install of CentOS 5 on one of my machines. However, when I try to use the 'service' command (such as 'service httpd start') I get an error that the service

Re: [CentOS] Me llega mucho spammmmm

2007-08-20 Thread Noel Sanchez
Que te pasa con sendmail ___ Orlando Rubino Gala Administración UONet Email = [EMAIL PROTECTED] Email = [EMAIL PROTECTED] Fax = 1(360) 351 - 0681 Phone = 632138 - Original

Re: [CentOS] GNBD and DRBD kernel mods

2007-08-20 Thread Bart
What is it in the Plus kernel that you need and cant be packaged into a kmod itself ? Ehm, nothing... I just need a kernel that both has a kmod-drbd and kmod-gnbd. I don't believe that this is the case for the current Plus kernel. This is my problem: [EMAIL PROTECTED] log]# yum install

Re: [CentOS] RAID storage - SATA, SCSI, or Fibre Channel?

2007-08-20 Thread Peter Petrakis
SAS all the way. Think of it as fibre channel, that you can afford. You can also mix SATA and SAS disks so really the biggest difference between SATA II and a SAS is the cost of the host bus adapter (HBA). I don't have personal experience with external storage for SAS (expanders) though I

Re: [CentOS] Problems reading a backup data DVD

2007-08-20 Thread Mark Hull-Richter
On 8/20/07, Lanny Marcus [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Mark: Below are the last 4 lines of dmesg on my daughters box. I had the CentOS 5.0 Install DVD in the drive and the DVD icon was visible on the desktop, but, it had not automounted the DVD. I did not mount the DVD manually. Lanny SELinux:

Re: [CentOS] Me llega mucho spammmmm

2007-08-20 Thread Mark Weaver
Noel Sanchez wrote: Que te pasa con sendmail ___ If you haven't already, take a look at ORDB lookups done with Sendmail. This should be the first level of a multi-layer anti-spam approach for any Sendmail installation. Custom Rolled IP Tables Firewall Ruleset

Re: [CentOS] GNBD and DRBD kernel mods

2007-08-20 Thread Karanbir Singh
Bart wrote: What is it in the Plus kernel that you need and cant be packaged into a kmod itself ? Ehm, nothing... I just need a kernel that both has a kmod-drbd and kmod-gnbd. I don't believe that this is the case for the current Plus kernel. This is my problem: [EMAIL PROTECTED] log]# yum